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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

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Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up with ideas ("research taste") and reliably judgin…

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  1. 2026-09-11 17:57 · The Decoder
    Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

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